Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-80381 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-80381 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-80381?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9.8, published 8 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-80381?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-80381 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-80381?
- Check whether you run IBM Guardium Data Protection at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The Sniffer component in IBM Guardium Data Protection versions 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2 fails to properly sanitize SQL input, allowing a remote attacker to inject malicious SQL commands over the network (CWE-89). No authentication or user interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability, giving attackers direct access to view, add, modify, or delete database records.
Affected products
- IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-08: disclosed